Get out of the wagon...

Ten years ago this August, Bill Clinton signed into law a bill that would require the states to push welfare recipients into jobs. The Democrats, as usual, attacked the law on grounds that it would end up hurting the worst among us - the poor. At the time, comments like those of Republican senator Phil Gramm, "get out of the wagon and help everybody else pull" rankled Democrats and their supporters. The comment, while a fair one, spurred Democrats and their supporters to speak against the bill. But by all accounts the "workfare" programs, as they were later called, have done better than had previously thought. So maybe Gramm and the Republicans had it right afterall.
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